A comparison of Paley-Wiener theorems for real reductive Lie groups (Q475821)

The authors make a detailed comparison between the Paley-Wiener theorems of J. Arthur and P. Delorme for a real reductive Lie group \(G\). They prove that these theorems are equivalent. They also give an alternative formulation of the theorems in terms of the Hecke algebra of bi-\(K\)-finite distributions supported on \(K\), a maximal compact subgroup of \(G\). The importance of this algebra for representation theory is based on the fact that the category of Harish-Chandra modules is isomorphic to the category of finitely generated admissible modules for this algebra. Their techniques involve derivatives of holomorphic families of continuous representations and Harish-Chandra modules.